[Mercat]

I had one day only of post partum and it was awful. I called the mother of a friend of mine. I can't even remember the friend now (27 years later) but she had been a nanny in England and was retired. She came over, took over and I went to bed. By morning, it was over, just a bad dream. God bless that woman even though I wasn't at any stage of homicide or suicide, it was a very scary experience.

[TheSpottedOwl]

You're so lucky that you had someone to call. I remember having an episode while still pregnant(last trimester)with my youngest. My now ex husband bullied me into signing a second mortgage on our house which was upside down on the first mortgage. I remember sitting in bed staring at him and a voice in my head calmly told me to go to the kitchen and get the chef's knife. Luckily I'm not schizophrenic. Lucky for him, too.